The Language of Flowers – Part 1 – A – B

In Victorian times it was very fashionable to associate “secret” meanings with certain types of flowers.

These connections weren’t very secret, as they were published in magazines and almanacs for people to use as a sort of coded language. Surprisingly many of the “meanings” were very negative and even quite nasty!

Here are some of these traditional associations, taken from my Sunlight Year Book 1896.